Formulas · Regulate Qi 理氣 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Two Hu Powder
Iho-san
한글 이호산 · Pinyin Er Hu San
二胡散
Composition 構成
- Hyeonhosaek玄胡索 현호색 · Corydalis8 g
Chief 君equal parts
- Hocho胡椒 호초 · Black Pepper8 g
Chief 君equal parts
- Ju酒 주 · Wine—
Envoy 使warm wine as the draught
Total 16 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 1 ingredient measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.
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Actions 效能
- Treats pain of the heart and abdomen
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Cold with qi stagnation — abdominal pain
Biomedical correlates
- Epigastric pain
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治心腹痛. 玄胡索ㆍ胡椒 等分爲末, 每二錢, 溫酒調下. 《入門》
Translation
Treats pain of the heart and abdomen. Corydalis and pepper in equal parts, powdered; take 2 don at a time stirred into warm wine. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Hyung)
Clinical commentary 臨床
The name counts the two 胡 characters in the ingredients. Both are 胡 medicinals — things that came from the west — and the pun is the mnemonic. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.